amazing place! you can find cafes around the area and rent a boat! there are motor boats and pedals but the availability is according to how much people is renting it. totally recommended!

Houhai is a place in the middle of Shichahai, when tourists enter Shichahai from many places, often the first place to enter is Houhai. Houhai is also the most lively place in Shichahai. People came here through the alleys. The coast is full of various shops. There are also parks. The old courtyard buildings can be visited. This is the famous summer and play place in old Beijing.

Houhai is located in the Xicheng District of Beijing city center, Houhai is an integral part of Shichahai, composed of Qianhai, Houhai, Xihai three water surfaces, in order to be different from Beihai, Zhonghai, and South China Sea "first three seas", known as "back three seas". Houhai East from Di'anmen Outer Street, West to Xinjiekou Street, South to Ping'an Street, North to North Second Ring Road, the total area of 146.7 hectares, of which 34 hectares of water area,11.5 hectares of green space. This is the ancient waters of the Yuan Dadu period 700 years ago in Beijing.

This is actually the water system of Shichahai, but the waterfront of Houhai has appeared in many bars in the past decade.

nice place to walk around and see some nice huntings. some nice places to eat

A bar snack in Beijing near the park, Houhai is not the sea, literary style

The park environment is very good, the surrounding buildings are also well preserved, the citizen life is integrated into it, very good

All the way from Tian'anmen Gate to the Forbidden City Museum, just a few bus stops, the lake in the park is frozen, many visitors skate on it, and there are many kinds of snacks, handicraft paper-cuts and souvenirs with Beijing characteristics in the smoke bag ramp street beside Houhai. The park is too big. It's too tired to walk for a day. When someone says he doesn't want to go, he will visit it. Take a picture and then leave. Next time, he must go deep.